Nantucket
Skip · RPG · 2018
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$17.99Skip
On its price record
$13.05Fair
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 882 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.05 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible, 1004 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 77 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt (free, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Blood and Gold: Caribbean! ($19.99, scores 7).
More about Nantucket
Of the 290 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
35% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
to play an hour of this just to have a random event roll a certain Game Over, utterly pointless waste of time
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is putrid. Great concept, horribly implemented. Program throws different "crises" at you and it seems to be totally random and without regard to your preparedness. For instance, I leave port with 86 days worth of water. 3 days in I get a decision card stating I'm running out of water...? Some of these random events are totally unrelated to what's going on on the ship. Just random tragedies which you CANNOT...
Finally beat the game and I gotta say it's great. Nice tense combat and strategy paired with a brilliant sound track.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Nantucket scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/621220/nantucketReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.